Hardy Vieux concentrates his practice on advising clients who are the subject of government investigations, including white-collar criminal investigations, False Claims Act allegations, and securities enforcement matters. He has represented a wide array of institutional and individual clients-including major technology companies and manufacturers, real estate developers, pharmaceutical companies, and military service members-in criminal, civil, and administrative investigations conducted by federal and state law enforcement agencies in a variety of areas, including antitrust, defense procurement fraud, health care fraud, and public corruption. Mr. Vieux has successfully tried complex civil and criminal cases before state and federal trial courts.
Mr. Vieux also conducts institutional internal investigations, which occasionally result in voluntary disclosures to federal or state agencies. He has assisted in independent union review board investigations involving allegations of embezzlement, corruption or organized crime association in violation of the union's Ethical Practices Code.
Mr. Vieux also represents clients in congressional investigations. He represented a for-profit educational institution in an investigation conducted by the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. He also represented a United States Army military intelligence soldier, who was a secondary whistleblower in the prisoner abuse incidents that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Mr. Vieux represented the client in subsequent hearings before the Senate's Armed Services Committee.
Mr. Vieux has extensive experience in managing and devising strategy regarding discovery of companies' electronically-stored information. He regularly counsels and assists clients to help them meet the legal and technical challenges of preserving, producing, and obtaining electronically-stored information when litigation is imminent or underway.
Mr. Vieux serves on the Firm's diversity committee and co-leads the D.C. office's pro bono committee. He has provided pro bono representation in juvenile criminal justice, child custody, asylum, and landlord-tenant matters.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Vieux served as a criminal appellate defense counsel in the United States Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps, where he served as lead counsel in a capital punishment case, as well as argued cases involving espionage, Fourth Amendment search and seizure, and Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel. He has served as a commentator on military justice matters on NPR, CNN, BBC Radio, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
Mr. Vieux served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Richard P. Matsch in Denver, Colorado.
Community Service & Affiliations
Mr. Vieux serves on the District of Columbia Bar's Pro Bono Committee. In June 2010, the D.C. Bar awarded Mr. Vieux its Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year for, among other things, assistance he provided in Haiti in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake.
In August 2009, the president of the American Bar Association appointed Mr. Vieux to its Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants. Mr. Vieux also serves as the secretary-treasurer of the National Institute of Military Justice.
Mr. Vieux serves as president of the national Duke Alumni Association, where he helped devise and implement a national alumni service-learning program. As president of the Duke Alumni Association, Mr. Vieux also serves on Duke University's Board of Trustees. He is past-president of the Duke Club of Washington and co-chaired its civic engagement arm-Partners-in-Education-from 2005 until 2010.
He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. While in a law school, Mr. Vieux helped establish the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, serving as its first symposium coordinator and later editor-in-chief of the second volume. Mr. Vieux earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University, where he served as student body president during the 1992-93 academic year.
Memberships
American Bar Association
Duke Club of Washington
Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Institute of Military Justice
Events
6TH ANNUAL EMERGING ISSUES FOR IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
[Event]
The Rittenhouse Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Friday, October 29, 2010
Grand Hyatt New York
November 12, 2010
Jerry D. Bernstein, Kevin J. Bruno, Lisa Casey Spaniel, Scott F. Cooper, Jennifer Hale Eagland, Lawrence A. Gross, et al.
BLANK ROME HOSTS ATTORNEYS-OF-COLOR FORUM RETREAT
[Event]
Baltimore, Maryland
May 15-16, 2008
Alan J. Hoffman, Nathaniel R. Jones, Martin Luskin and Hardy Vieux
Publications
THE IMPACT OF DODD-FRANK'S "INCENTIVIZED" WHISTLEBLOWER PROVISIONS ON CORPORATE COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS
[Alert]
For the Defense
February 2010
Hardy Vieux
SUPREME COURT DECISION MAKES IT MORE DIFFICULT TO SUE MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURERS
[Alert]
Health Law Update
March 2008 (No. 1)
Hardy Vieux
Cases And Deals
BLANK ROME SECURES PRODUCTS LIABILITY DEFENSE VICTORY IN SUIT SEEKING IN EXCESS OF $2 MILLION
[Case]
September 2011
Glen A. Rothstein, Paul M. Honigberg, Edward N. Cahn, Kathy PourSanae, Joseph O. Click and Hardy Vieux
Blank Rome obtained summary judgment in favor of our client, The Conestoga Company, in a products liability action in California Superior Court in Los Angeles County.